On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Jeff Illian wrote:

>
> For example, this weekend we did the Efreeti raid... We almost screwed it
> all up because one damn imp resisted all of the snare attempts and started
> running. What saved the day? Luckily the other bard in the group had
> chains loaded and stopped the runner cold in its tracks. Me being a DOLT
> didn't have it up (last time I do that!).

If there is only one snarer in the group, I keep it handy.
Two and I usually replace it with something else.

> What about the slow down effect? Well your level 20 song is as good as
> chains, has an area effect, doesn't break root and stacks with the
> enchanters slow downs. IMHO this is a much better song for during combat
> and chains should be loaded for the emergency situations when everything
> else fails.

As far as I can tell, Chain does not cancel other slowdowns
("stacks" isn't the correct word since that implies the
slowdowns add to each other).

I have enough difficulty deciding which songs to keep
memorized. If I'm going to have Chain loaded for emergencies,
I'd rather not have to keep Binding loaded. Also, the
slowdown for CoC is not as great as for Chain/Binding from my
tests.

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John H. Kim
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